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Online
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newspapers and materials from books. Use your original
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Academic
Search Complete - contains full text for nearly
4,650 serials, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications.
In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing
and abstracts for more than 8,200 journals in the collection.
This scholarly collection offers information in computer sciences,
engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts
& literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many
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Academic
OneFile - is the premier source for peer-reviewed,
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sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology,
medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and
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With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text
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Contemporary
Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, Dictionary
of Literary Biography -
Contemporary
Authors provides complete biographical and bibliographical information
on more than 120,000 U.S. and international authors. Contemporary
Literary Criticism--Select collects more than 35,000 critical
essays on contemporary authors, with biographical, critical,
principal works, and further study information. Dictionary of
Literary Biography provides nearly 10,000 biographical and critical
essays on the lives, works, and careers of influential literary
figures from all eras and genres.
JSTOR
- Search the full text of many scholarly journals in the arts,
literature, botany, ecology and the social sciences.
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Latino
Literature - contains approximately 186 plays and
33,000 pages of prose and poetry by Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican,
Dominican and other Latin writers working in the United States.
New titles are being added regularly. For
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LION
- Literature Online, a new database offered by ProQuest
with thousands of articles and full-text pieces of literature.
For search tips, click on the Help link
in the right corner.
Literature
Criticism Online - a new Gale database encompassing
many of their popular collections, including Contemporary Literary
Criticism®, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism®, Nineteenth-Century
Literature Criticism®, Shakespearean Criticism Literature,
Criticism from 1400–1800, Classical and Medieval Literature
Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Drama Criticism,
and Children's Literature Review.
Literature
Resource Center - Access
biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of more than
120,000 authors from every age and literary discipline. For
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Perspectives
in American Literature
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